Table Of Content

the oxford handbook of ...................................................................................................................................................... POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS ...................................................................................................................................................... Edited by R. A. W. RHODES SARAH A. BINDER and BERT A. ROCKMAN 1 the oxford handbook of POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS t h e o x f o r d h a n d b o o k s o f p o l i t i c a l s c i e n c e GeneralEditor:RobertE.Goodin The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books oVering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of all the main branches of politicalscience. The series as awhole is under the General Editorship of Robert E. Goodin, with eachvolumebeingeditedbyadistinguishedinternationalgroupofspecialistsintheir respectiveWelds: POLITICAL THEORY JohnS.Dryzek,BonnieHonig&AnnePhillips POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS R.A.W.Rhodes,SarahA.Binder&BertA.Rockman POLITICAL BEHAVIOR RussellJ.Dalton&Hans-DieterKlingemann COMPARATIVE POLITICS CarlesBoix&SusanC.Stokes LAW & POLITICS KeithE.Whittington,R.DanielKelemen&GregoryA.Caldeira PUBLIC POLICY MichaelMoran,MartinRein&RobertE.Goodin POLITICAL ECONOMY BarryR.Weingast&DonaldA.Wittman INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ChristianReus-Smit&DuncanSnidal CONTEXTUAL POLITICAL ANALYSIS RobertE.Goodin&CharlesTilly POLITICAL METHODOLOGY JanetM.Box-Steffensmeier,HenryE.Brady&DavidCollier Thisseriesaspirestoshapethediscipline,notjusttoreportonit.LiketheGoodin– KlingemannNewHandbookofPoliticalScienceuponwhichtheseriesbuilds,eachof these volumes will combine critical commentaries on where the Weld has been togetherwithpositivesuggestionsastowhereitoughttobeheading. 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein OxfordNewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto WithoYcesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork (cid:1)theseveralcontributors2006 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2006 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Dataavailable TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby BiddlesLtd.,King’sLynn,Norfolk ISBN0-19-927569-6 978-0-19-927569-4 13579108642 ontents C ......................................... AbouttheContributors ix Preface xii PART I INTRODUCTION 1. Elaborating the ‘‘New Institutionalism’’ 3 James G. March & Johan P. Olsen PART II APPROACHES 2. Rational Choice Institutionalism 23 Kenneth A. Shepsle 3. Historical Institutionalism 39 Elizabeth Sanders 4. Constructivist Institutionalism 56 Colin Hay 5. Network Institutionalism 75 Christopher Ansell 6. Old Institutionalisms 90 R. A.W. Rhodes PART III INSTITUTIONS 7. The State and State-building 111 Bob Jessop 8. Development of Civil Society 131 Jose Harris vi contents 9. Economic Institutions 144 Michael Moran 10. Exclusion, Inclusion, and Political Institutions 163 Matthew Holden, jr. 11. Analyzing Constitutions 191 Peter M. Shane 12. Comparative Constitutions 217 Josep M. Colomer 13. American Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations 239 Alberta M. Sbragia 14. Comparative Federalism 261 Brian Galligan 15. Territorial Institutions 281 Jean-Claude Thoenig 16. Executives—The American Presidency 303 WilliamG. Howell 17. Executives in Parliamentary Government 323 R. A.W. Rhodes 18. Comparative Executive–Legislative Relations 344 Matthew Søberg Shugart 19. Public Bureaucracies 366 Donald F. Kettl 20. The Welfare State 385 Jacob S. Hacker 21. The Regulatory State? 407 John Braithwaite 22. Legislative Organization 431 John M. Carey 23. Comparative Legislative Behavior 455 Eric M. Uslaner & Thomas Zittel 24. Bicameralism 474 John Uhr 25. Comparative Local Governance 495 Gerry Stoker contents vii 26. Judicial Institutions 514 James L.Gibson 27. The Judicial Process and Public Policy 535 Kevin T. McGuire 28. Political Parties In and Out of Legislatures 555 John H. Aldrich 29. Electoral Systems 577 Shaun Bowler 30. Direct Democracy 595 Ian Budge 31. International Political Institutions 611 Richard Higgott 32. International Security Institutions: Rules, Tools, Schools, or Fools? 633 John S. Duffield 33. International Economic Institutions 654 Lisa L. Martin 34. International NGOs 673 Ann Florini PART IV OLD AND NEW 35. Encounters with Modernity 693 Samuel H. Beer 36. About Institutions, Mainly, but not Exclusively, Political 716 Jean Blondel 37. Thinking Institutionally 731 Hugh Heclo 38. Political Institutions—Old and New 743 Klaus von Beyme Index 759 bout the ontributors A C .............................................................................................................. JohnH.AldrichisPWzer-PrattUniversityProfessorintheDepartmentofPolitical Science,DukeUniversity. Christopher Ansell is Associate Professor, Department of Political Science in the UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley. SamuelH.BeerisEatonProfessoroftheScienceofGovernmentemeritus,Harvard University. Sarah A. Binder is a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings InstitutionandProfessorofPoliticalScienceatGeorgeWashingtonUniversity. Jean Blondel is Professorial Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, andVisitingProfessor,UniversityofSiena. Shaun Bowler is Professor and interim Chair in the Department of Political Science,UniversityofCalifornia,Riverside. John Braithwaite is an Australian Research Council Federation Fellow in RegNet, theResearchSchoolofSocialSciences,AustralianNationalUniversity. IanBudgeisProfessorintheDepartmentofGovernment,UniversityofEssex. JohnM.CareyisProfessorintheDepartmentofGovernment,DartmouthCollege. JosepM.ColomerisResearchProfessorinPoliticalScienceintheHigherCouncil ofScientiWcResearch,Barcelona. JohnS.DuYeldisProfessorintheDepartmentofPoliticalScience,GeorgiaState University. AnnFloriniisSeniorFellow,ForeignPolicyStudies,TheBrookingsInstitution. Brian Galligan is Professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne. James L. Gibson is Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government at Washington University inSt.Louis. Jacob S. Hacker is Peter Strauss Family Associate Professor of Political Science at YaleUniversity.